Two packages containing human body parts — including a liver and a partial head — that were intended for a lab were delivered to a home instead, and officials say more than two dozen similar packages could be dispersed across the United States.The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's home by a DHL driver who thought the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table."My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,'" Ludivine Larmande told The Grand Rapids Press. "He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.""Something wasn't right. It was scary, and I'm glad I didn't open them."The body parts — which are preserved — were for medical research, police Lt. Roger Parent said.... http://www.usatoday.com

Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways Friday, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights. At least 15 storm-related deaths have been reported since the snow began falling Wednesday, including a 10-year-old Wisconsin boy who died Friday in a car accident. The storm left more than a foot of snow in some areas Friday. Even as the flakes stopped falling by afternoon, gusts of 40 mph prompted blizzard warnings and prevented major highways from reopening. Officials at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport canceled 500 flights, blaming bad weather elsewhere. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/02/national/main2530780.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2530780

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Friday for nearly 50 Haitian migrants feared dead after their homemade boat caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean, an agency spokesman said. Crews stopped looking for survivors and remains after a nearly 31-hour search across 1,250 square miles yielded only the remains of five deceased passengers, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Barry Bena said. Two of the estimated 56 passengers were rescued Tuesday by an American couple sailing from Panama to Antigua. The migrants were traveling from the northern Haitian town of Cap-Haitien to the Turks and Caicos Islands when a fuel tank exploded about 23 miles north of the Dominican Republic and sank the fiberglass boat, the survivors told their rescuers. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/02/world/main2533178.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2533178

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday delivered a faultlessly tailored appeal to more than 1,000 grass-roots conservative activists hungry for a renewed commitment to limited government. Addressing the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Mr. Romney stood out from the pack of Republican presidential aspirants that included Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mike Huckabee by promising to end taxes on earnings from interest, dividends and capital gains, and to cap federal spending and veto every attempt to break that cap -- whether proposed by a Republican or Democratic Congress. "I know how to veto. I like vetoes," Mr. Romney said. Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served in President Reagan's Justice Department, said the late president understood that ideas, not race or ethnicity, are what identify Americans....http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070303-121443-6480r.htm

At least 40 people have been killed and scores more are missing in landslides on the Indonesian island of Flores, officials have said. Dozens of homes were washed away in East Nusa Tenggara province and the road to the region's main town, Ruteng, has been cut off. Rescuers are trying to dig out victims but are being hampered by bad weather. Indonesia is in the middle of its rainy season, which each year sparks dozens of landslides. Officials say at least 20 bodies have been pulled from mud after a hill collapsed in Cibal with scores still reported missing. Local disaster management official, Yos Nono, said torrential rain had struck six hilly districts in the province. Rescuers have been unable to move in heavy machinery because of the blocked roads. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6414571.stm

Negotiators for Ivory Coast's president and his rebel opponents agreed a new peace plan on Saturday to reunite the divided West African state and hold elections after talks in neighboring Burkina Faso.They said President Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro, leader of the New Forces rebels who seized the northern half of the world's top cocoa grower in a brief 2002-2003 civil war, would sign the deal on Sunday in Burkina's capital Ouagadougou. "We have initialed it to confirm to our superiors that this text conforms with our discussions," said rebel representative Louis Dacoury-Tabley, who is minister for solidarity and war victims in a transition government created under a U.N.-backed peace plan which has so far failed to reunite the country. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2921076